Dating a man during divorce

While he contemplated all the choices he made and the failures he experienced and the happiness he once felt, I was left in the dark; incapable of comprehending just how difficult that limbo is and was.

Our life is an —not a foregone conclusion (and that’s a good thing! But the more aware you are of what, potentially, you’re getting into when you enter a relationship, the better you can mitigate your chances of heartbreak and relationship disaster.

I was visiting my hometown for a weekend and he was visiting a local bar, thanks to the very persuasive powers of his friends and family.

I was already a few drinks deep and he wasn’t far behind, but we struck up a conversation and danced like the drunken buffoons we were and, at the end of the night, exchanged numbers.

Even though his marriage was nearing its end and he was no longer love with his estranged wife, he would always love her.

Through the anger and disappointment and every bitter feeling in between, he would have a spot in his heart carved out specifically for her. And there wasn’t a single thing I could do or hopeful wish I could make, that could possibly erase her from his history.